What a BadAss Week!

Just like that, only three weeks in and already the undefeated teams and winless teams are no more.  In a weird matchup coincidence, it was the two winless teams, American BadAss and Young Guns, getting their first wins versus the two undefeated teams, Coors Light Drunk Guys and sprouts.  Going all the way back to 2007, there has never been a season without at least one 3-0 or 0-3 team… never before have the standings been like the currently sit with every team in the league at either 2-1 or 1-2.  Crazy!  How’s that for parity?

The big congrats this week go out to American BadAss, one of only two teams able to crack triple digits this week!  Jason was able to overcome a zero-point performance from the Bengals defense, and still post 104 points to take the crown.  Matt Ryan had a monstrous game, scoring 42 points, which accounted for more than 40% of BadAss’ total points.  Jason also had four of his other players score double digits, led by kicker Will Lutz who finished with 15 points.  This marks American BadAss's first Weekly High Score Prize this season, and is the third different team to claim the top spot.  Well done bro!

This week we will check in with the All Unwanteds, see which NFL teams are scoring the most fantasy points, and I’ll highlight a touchdown celebration from this week which will probably go down as my favorite all time.  Onward!!

BIG TIME

• Matt Ryan, QB – American BadAss – 42 pts – In an epic display of quarterbacking, Matt Ryan put up 374 yards and 5 TD’s with no interceptions in a loss to the Saints.
• Drew Brees, QB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 42 pts – Here was the other half of the epic quarterbacking… Brees had himself 396 yards and 3 TD’s, plus added 2 rushing TD’s.  Amazingly, between Ryan & Brees there were 84 passes thrown without one interception.  And how crazy is it that these two guys were going head-to-head in a real game, and in the game between BadAss & the Drunk Guys.  What?!
• Calvin Ridley, WR – Free Agent – 32 pts – The rookie wide receiver will certainly keep seeing a lot more looks if he plays like this… 7 catches (on 8 targets) for 146 yards and 3 TD’s!  (Side note – Julio Jones, the other Falcons receiver, had a total of 3 touchdowns all of last season!)
• Cam Newton, QB – sprouts – 29 pts – Not much passing-wise for Cam (150 yards, 2 TD’s), but he managed to get into the endzone twice on the ground and added 36 yards.
• Jared Goff, QB – Joe’s Pats – 28 pts – Goff’s point totals so far this season are 17, 21 and 28.  I’ve done the math and at his current rate of improvement he should score 77 points in Week 12 and 94 points in Week 15!
• Ryan Fitzpatrick, QB – Young Guns – 27 pts – The magic wore off a bit, but Fitz still racked up 411 yards and 3 TD’s, but unfortunately had 3 interceptions.  Get this… through 3 weeks of play, Ryan Fitzpatrick is the highest scoring player in fantasy with 104 points!  That’s 11 points higher than the next closest player, Drew Brees.

COME ON MAN!!

• Keenan Allen, WR – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 2 pts – Allen only managed 44 yards, plus loss a fumble in this weak showing.
• Austin Seferian-Jenkins, WR – Bye Weak – 1 pt – ASJ is a touchdown-or-bust-kind-of-guy, and this week was definitely a bust as he caught 3 passes for only 17 yards.
• Kenyan Drake, RB – Bubble Craps Bandits – 0 pts – He rushed 5 times for 3 yards (0.6 yards per carry) and caught 2 passes for 7 yards (3.5 yards per catch).  Combined he touched the ball 7 times for 10 yards or 1.43 yards per touch.  You could probably quarterback sneak for more than that.
• Larry Fitzgerald, WR – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 0 pts – Larry only caught 2 passes for 9 yards, which matches his lowest yardage total since 2012, and the fewest passes thrown in his direction (2) since 2006.  With only 9 points scored so far this season, Fitzgerald ranks 78^th among wide receivers.
• Cincinnati, DEF – American BadAss – 0 pts – The Bengals gave up 31 points and only managed one defensive statistic…a lone sack.  Weak.
• Dan Bailey, K – Joe’s Pats – 0 pts – In what should have been an amazing opportunity to rack up points (Vikings playing at home versus the Bills), Minnesota got throttled by Buffalo and Bailey never even attempted an extra point or a field goal.
• Rashaad Penny, RB – sprouts – 0 pts – Penny only carried the ball three times, and nearly lost a fumble.  And on those three carries, he only managed 5 yards. 

ALL UNWANTEDS

Miami had a big game on Sunday which gave a big boost to the All Unwanteds this week:

QB	Ryan Tannehill Mia	25
RB	Bilal Powell NYJ	7
RB	Frank Gore Mia	1
WR	Albert Wilson Mia	19
WR	Jakeem Grant Mia	21
TE	Mike Gesicki Mia	3
K	Jason Myers NYJ	5
DEF	Miami Mia	10
		91

Two roster changes from last week, inserting Jakeem Grant, WR and Mike Gesicki, TE into the lineup.  The 91 points scored was good enough to defeat 8 teams this week!  Only American BadAss and Young Guns would have beaten the All Unwanteds.  This moves their overall season record to 16-14.

MY FAVORITE TD CELEBRATION EVER

There have been some unique TD celebrations using the ball as a prop… performing CPR on it, using it as a pillow, dropping it in the red kettle… but Isaiah Crowell took it to a new, and hilarious, level on Thursday night.  After scoring his second touchdown and giving the Jets a 13-0 lead, Crowell squatted then wiped his ass three times with the ball and THREW IT INTO THE CROWD!!  I honestly re-watched it probably a dozen times, laughing harder each time I saw it. 

(If the video isn't working, here's the link to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grS62P-yaj0)

Couple things I wonder about this:  a) when did he actually think up the idea?, b) did he rehearse beforehand?, and c) how did he finally decide, “Okay now’s the time when I’m gonna pretend to shit and wipe my ass and throw it on people on national television!”?  Unreal.

NFL TEAM FANTASY SCORES

This season I’ve set up a tracker to calculate the weekly fantasy point total by NFL team.  For each team, it calculates the points scored for all normal roster positions: 1 QB, 2 WR, 2 RB, 1 TE, 1 K and 1 DEF.  Through three weeks, here are the top 10 highest scoring teams:

Team	1	2	3	Total
KC	102	105	82	289
TB	121	92	75	288
LAR	83	104	101	288
NO	113	64	105	282
Pit	84	101	69	254
LAC	97	85	66	248
Cin	78	100	65	243
Atl	53	87	102	242
Bal	86	70	79	235
Was	91	53	80	224

This shows by going with an all Chief, Buccaneer or Ram lineup, you would have been the highest scoring team in the league right now, and an all Saint lineup would have you tied with Joe’s Pats for highest scoring team with 282 points.

And in case you are curious, here are the bottom 5 scoring teams:

Team	1	2	3	Total
Dal	36	65	50	151
Buf	20	47	80	147
Phi	48	69	26	143
Ten	54	48	36	138
Ari	30	13	38	81

In Week 1, an all Buffalo team would have scored 20 points, and in Week 2 an all Cardinal team would have only made 13 points!  Holy hell that’s bad!

BEST BENCH

The Best Bench award is now going on its 10^th year after making its debut back in 2009.  During that time, there have only been 8 occasions where the highest scoring team for the week also takes the Best Bench prize.  Well we can now add one more to that total, as the Week 3 Best Bench goes to… American BadAss!!  Jason needed just three roster moves for a 28-point improvement:  R. Woods for T. Hill +18, C. Carson for E. Elliott +7, K. Stills for B. Cooks +3.

Get your waivers in!  Week 4 is fast approaching!

Late Game Heroics Lift Joe's Pats

Okay, so maybe James Conner isn’t the second coming of Jerome Bettis and maybe the Jets defense isn’t quite the dominate force Week 1 made them out to be.  In fact, of the Top 25 highest scoring players in Week 1, only six of those players were in the Top 25 for Week 2.  Those players are: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Philip Rivers, Patrick Mahomes, DeSean Jackson, Michael Thomas and Joe Flacco.  Players like Tyreek Hill (dropped from 2nd to 47th), Drew Brees (dropped from 3rd to 37th) and the aforementioned James Conner (dropped from 7th to 55th) all experienced a Week 2 lull, with their second outing coming in significantly worse than their first.  The only player from the Week 1 Top 25 to improve their position in Week 2 was Mahomes who moved from 7th to 2nd in overall scoring.  The player who experienced the largest drop was Kenny Stills who ranked T-12th in Week 1 (22 pts) and finished T-246th in Week 2 after only scoring 1 point.

In the Week 2 matchups, we had 2 games decided by 5 points or less, 2 decided by 30 points or more, and are left with only 2 undefeated teams and 2 winless teams.  Last season three teams made it undefeated through Week 2, and we saw the final undefeated team lose by Week 4.  Sofa King Back who romped in Week 1, fell off a cliff this week and finished with only 61 points…less than half of their Week 1 league-leading score of 124 points.  The Bubble Craps Bandits went the other way, more than doubling their point total from last week (60) en route to a dominating victory over Vandelay Industries 121-74.  It looked like Timmy had the Weekly High Score Prize all but wrapped up, until the Chicago defense picked off a Russell Wilson pass on MNF and ran it in for a TD, vaulting Joe’s Pats into the Week 2 top spot!!

Joe had an amazing game from Kirk Cousins (36 pts), and Todd Gurley (29 pts), plus racked up 31 points from his wide receivers (Hilton and Hopkins).  Joe’s worst player this week, ironically, was his lone Patriot, Rob Gronkowski, who had an abysmal game scoring only 1 point.  The victory moved Joe’s Pats record to 1-1, but in first place for total points scored (209).  Well done sir!

Just a quick write up this week, where we will take an early season look at keeper production and, of course, award the Best Bench.  Let’s do this!


BIG TIME BOOYAH!

• Ben Roethlisberger, QB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 41 pts – Big Ben chucked the ball 60 times, completed 42 passes for 452 yards, 3 TD’s, plus added a rushing TD and it still wasn’t enough to beat the Chiefs.  And while this was a big scoring game for Big Ben, he actually scored 47 points back in Week 8-2014, when he had 522 passing yards and 6 TD’s!  
• Patrick Mahomes, QB – Bubble Craps Bandits – 38 pts – Simply amazing… 326 yards and 6, yes 6!!! touchdown passes.  And if you haven’t already heard this stat, here it is one more time…Mahomes now holds the NFL record for most TD passes in his first two games with 10.  Timmy also holds a new record, as it was the most times he's jizzed in his pants during a football game.
• Kirk Cousins, QB – Joe’s Pats – 36 pts – 425 yards, 4 TD’s, a 2-pt conversion, an interception and a tie game.
• Blake Bortles, QB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 35 pts – Interesting fact-Blake Bortles now has more victories vs. the Patriots (1) than Tom Brady does (0).  Also did you know – Blake Bortles and Tom Brady have combined for 4 Super Bowl titles, 2 NFL MVP awards and 10 Pro Bowl appearances.  Impressive!
• Ryan Fitzpatrick, QB – Free Agent – 33 pts – What does a guy have to do to earn a roster spot?  Fitzperfect now leads all fantasy scorers with a 35.5 point-per-week average, as he racked up another 402 yards and 4 TD’s this weekend.  Someone needs to pull the trigger or I will!
• Todd Gurley, RB – Joe’s Pats – 29 pts – Gurley is a man baby!  He only needed 42 yards to rack up 3 TD’s, plus added 30 yards receiving.  Oh yeah, and had two 2-point conversions.

COME ON MAN!

• Houston, DEF – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 2 pts – The Texans basically showed up to this game, and didn’t do much else, as their only notable stat (along with giving up 20 points) was a single sack.
• Jack Doyle, TE – Already PlayingForFirstPick – 2 pts – Two catches for 20 yards is actually probably one of Jack Doyle’s better games.
• Larry Fitzgerald, WR – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 2 pts – Larry led the Cardinals in receiving and accounted for over 30% of their passing offense.  Unfortunately, this meant he had 28 of the Cardinals’ 90 yards passing.  Things are bad in Arizona.
• Chris Boswell, K – Vandelay Industries – 2 pts – In a high scoring game versus the Chiefs you would expect kickers to rack up the points, but Boswell missed his only field goal attempt and missed an extra point.  
• Rob Gronkowski, TE – Joe’s Pats – 1 pt -  The Jags shut Gronk down in a big way… 2 catches for only 15 yards.
• Baltimore, DEF – Longshanks – -1 pts – In 2018 there have been thus far 4 defenses who posted negative point totals, and 3 of those have been on an active roster.  How does that happen?

KEEPER CHECK-IN
We are only two weeks into the season, so this really is too early to pass judgement on keepers, but I wanted to give a production update on keepers.  Sofa King Back has had the toughest time with keepers, as neither one (Le’Veon Bell or Jerick McKinnon) has scored any points due to contract holdouts and injuries.  Other keepers stricken by the injury bug are Devonta Freeman (CL Drunk Guys), Leonard Fournette (sprouts) and Carson Wentz (Longshanks). 
The team with the best keeper production so far is returning champ Joe’s Pats with Todd Gurley (48) and DeAndre Hopkins (24), followed by Vandelay Industries with Alvin Kamara (44) and Antonio Brown (21).
Here is the full listing of keeper production so far:

Team	Owner	Keeper	Points
Joe's Pats	Joe	Todd Gurley II	48
		DeAndre Hopkins	24
Vandelay Industries	Rob	Antonio Brown	21
		Alvin Kamara	44
Young Guns	John	JuJu Smith	29
		Deshaun Watson	33
CL Drunk Guys	Shawn	Devonta Freeman	4
		Drew Brees	51
American BadAss	Jason	Ezekiel Elliott	26
		David Johnson	16
Bubble Craps Bandits	Timmy	Travis Kelce	22
		Kareem Hunt	17
Finders Keepers	Jens	Jimmy Garoppolo	24
		Alex Collins	13
sprouts	Russ	Odell Beckham Jr.	16
		Leonard Fournette	5
Longshanks	Jerry	Baltimore	17
		Carson Wentz	0
Sofa King Back	James	Le'Veon Bell	0
		Jerick McKinnon	0

BEST BENCH
This week’s lowest scoring game produced the two contenders for Best Bench.  In the game itself, the Coors Light Drunk Guys edged Sofa King Back by 4 points (65-61) and for Best Bench the Drunk Guys also edged King by 2!  In the end, Coors Light Drunk Guys could have improved their point total this week by a solid 31 points!  Shawn needed only three roster moves to get there:  B. Roethlisberger for D. Brees (+24), Jacksonville for Houston (+4) and C. Davis for L. Fitzgerald (+3).


Week 3 means we are only 3 weeks away from playoff predictions!

We are back! Sofa King Back!!

Week 1 is in the books and it belongs to the King!  With three players scoring over twenty points, and six players scoring in double digits, James racked up a solid 124 points to take the season's first Weekly High Score crown.  The top scoring player for Sofa King Back was James Conner who put up a stellar 28-point performance in place of the still-holding-out Le’Veon Bell.  (Seriously, how bad did that game screw up Ball’s bargaining position with the Steelers?)  The King also dominated in the wide receiver position, getting 20 & 20 from Julio Jones and Mike Evans.  In Week 1 last season, Joe’s Pats was the high scoring team, and they went on to win the title.  In an odd coincidence, Joe’s Pats opponent in that Week 1 matchup was none other than yours truly--the same team James defeated this week.  If history be our guide, I’d say Sofa King Back is the early season favorite to win it all this season!

Along with Sofa King Back, three other teams managed to crack the triple digit scoring in Week 1.  (Stark contrast from last year with zero teams scoring over 100 for the first two weeks of the season.)  Vandelay Industries scored 114 en route to victory (with half of those coming from two Saints – Alvin Kamara (33) and Michael Thomas (25)), the Coors Light Drunk Guys put up 105 in their victory (boosted by Drew Brees (34) and Jay Ajayi (20), and my Longshanks boys posted 104 in a losing effort (d’oh!).  Historically speaking, scoring over 100 points results in victory 88.5% of the time.  In fact, last season only twice did a team score over 100 in a losing effort.  (The fewest times a team has scored over 100 in a losing effort was zero back in 2008.  The most times it has happened in a season is 7, which occurred in back-to-back seasons of 2011 & 2012).

This week we’ll take a first look at the All Unwanteds and see who gets the Week 1 Best Bench.  Onward!


WHAT WE DO IN LIFE, ECHOES IN ETERNITY

• Ryan Fitzpatrick, QB – Free Agent – 44 pts – This was a stat line even Peyton Manning would be impressed by: 21 of 28, 417 yards, 4 TD’s, 0 Int’s, plus 36 yards on the ground and 1 rush TD!  Fitz was perfect in the first half, and I mean that literally.  He posted a QB rating of 158.3, which is the highest rating one can achieve.  Nicely done.  It’s not the first time he’s gone big either… he had a 42 point game back in Week 13 of 2014, where he threw 6 TD’s (hell yeah!) to go along with 358 yards passing.
• Tyreek Hill, WR – American BadAss – 38 pts – The speed Hill possesses is simply astounding.  He makes everyone on the field look slow.  He caught 7 balls for 169 yards (24.1 yards per catch), had 2 receiving TD’s, plus added a 91-yard punt return TD.  
• Drew Brees, QB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 34 pts – In a game completely devoid of defense, Brees went off for 439 yards passing and 3 TD’s.  
• Alvin Kamara, RB – Vandelay Industries – 33 pts – Kamara found the endzone a total of 5 times on Sunday… 3 TD’s and two 2-point conversions.  That to go along with 141 total yards is a pretty freaking awesome way to start the season.
• Philip Rivers, QB – Vandelay Industries – 31 pts – The Chargers fell behind early, so Rivers had to sling it a lot.  He did so to the tune of 51 times in the game.  51 attempts!  But he did amass 424 yards, 3 TD’s and only 1 INT, which isn’t that bad when you consider how many times he threw it.
• New York Jets, DEF – Free Agent – 29 pts – Not sure if the Jets defense is this good, or if the Lions offense is this bad, but wow.  By the end of the shellacking they put on the Lions, they had only allowed 11 points, while getting 5 interceptions (1 returned for a TD), plus a punt return TD.
• Patrick Mahomes, QB – Bubble Craps Bandits – 28 pts – Mahomes’ 3rd pass of the game was a beautiful 58-yard strike to Tyreek Hill.  He threw 3 more TD’s on the day, with zero interceptions.  Booyah!

COME ON, MAN!

• Evan Engram, TE – Vandelay Industries – 1 pt – Not much doing for Engram against the tough Jags defense… he finished with just 2 catches for 18 yards.
• Trey Burton, TE – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 1 pt – He was the second most targeted player for the Bears (6), yet he only caught 1 ball for 16 yards.  
• Amari Cooper, WR – American BadAss – 0 pts – Cooper came oh-so-close to scoring some points this week, as he caught 1 pass for 9 yards and had 1 rush for 9 yards.  Not quite the production Jason was hoping for when drafting Cooper in the 4th round.
• Jimmy Graham, TE – Young Guns – 0 pts – Do you remember when Jimmy Graham was a legit threat to put up numbers and could be considered one of the league's top tight ends?  Yeah, me neither…
• Travis Kelce, TE – Bubble Craps Bandits – 0 pts – On a day when the Chiefs offense is rolling, you would’ve expected Kelce to have a big day.  Or maybe just an alright day.  Or at worst a mediocre day.  Nope, instead we got this clunker where he only caught one ball for six yards.
• LA Chargers, DEF – Young Guns – (-3 pts) – The Chargers D didn’t do much to slow down the Chiefs.  The only stat recorded was one QB sack, along with surrendering 38 points.
• New Orleans Saints, DEF – Joe’s Pats – (-3 pts) – There were two negative scoring defenses this week, and somehow Joe and John managed to have them in their active lineups.  That is some kind of special right there.  Any one of 20 other teams would have scored positive points, but somehow both of these teams were on active rosters.  Crazy!

BEST COMMENT I READ ABOUT THE BROWNS

“Congratulations Browns, you no longer have a losing streak.  You now have a winless streak.”


AARON RODGERS – A HERO’S HERO AMONGST HEROES
Chris Collinsworth and Al Michaels took their praise for Aaron Rodgers to a new level on Sunday night.  It was full knee pad and reach-around type of praise. Now I’m not saying Rodgers didn’t have a good game, or wasn’t impressive for battling through the injury and pulling out the victory and all that.  But with how Chris and Al spoke about it, you would’ve thought Rodgers had single-handedly rescued P.O.W.’s from a Vietnam internment camp, finished his work on curing heart disease, brokered a Middle East peace treaty, all while saving dozens of children from an orphanage fire, and adopting every homeless puppy in the country.  John Gruden was always the biggest worshiper-from-the-booth (e.g. “This guy right here is just one of the best pure football players in the league”, said about Ryan Tannehill immediately before throwing a pick six), so I suppose Chris and Al are just trying to make up for his absence.  But come on...rein it in Collinsworth!


THE ALL UNWANTEDS
As mentioned last week, the three NFL teams with the fewest players selected in the draft were the Miami Dolphins, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals, who each only had two players selected or kept.  Thus, from the remaining players on those three teams, here is the Week 1 All Unwanteds:

Pos	Name	Pts
QB	Ryan Tannehill Mia	13
RB	Bilal Powell NYJ	6
RB	Frank Gore Mia	6
WR	Jakeem Grant Mia	11
WR	Quincy Enunwa NYJ	12
TE	Neal Sterling NYJ	2
K	Jason Myers NYJ	12
DEF	New York NYJ	29
	Total	91

Nice boost from the Jets defense, and fairly solid wide receiver performance.  The 91 points scored was better than 5 teams and worse than 5 teams, so the All Unwanted’s record for Week 1 is 5-5.


BEST BENCH
For Week 1, there really were not a lot of points left sitting idle on the bench.  This either means we all know what we are doing, or we all have zero depth and are only one injury away from really low scoring games!  But with only a 26-point improvement possibility, the Week 1 Best Bench goes to… Vandelay Industries!  Rob needed only two roster moves to net the 26 points – A. Peterson for J. Williams (+16) and P. Rivers for T. Brady (+10).

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
Lastly, wanted to close with a quick note on something I'm very excited about.  For over 8 years, my dad and I have been working on a Blackjack book, and I'm pleased to announce "Ace The Tables - How to Gain the Advantage in Blackjack" is finally complete and is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online vendors!  The eBook versions (Kindle & Nook) were just made available recently as well.  Here is a link to Amazon if you'd like to check it out! Ace The Tables 

Until next week... 

A New Season Dawns...

Bring on the 2018 season!!

The 2018 draft is in the books, and we are ready to begin the season!  The lead-up to the draft seemed to take forever (we hung out at Tilted Kilt for about 3 hours pre-draft to the chagrin of our clearly-annoyed waitress), but the draft seemed to fly by in no time at all.  Next year I swear I’m going to see if I can extend the time per pick, at least for the first 5 rounds or so.  But really, the only hiccups in the draft were Shawn thinking the draft was on Sunday, and Jens picking Golden Tate in the fourth round.  (Jens-There’s no way you meant to do that, right?…)  Reminder to everyone – the draft will always be the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend!

By position, the most taken was wide receivers with 48 players selected.  This was followed by runningbacks with 43, quarterbacks with 21, tight ends with 17, defenses with 11 and kickers with 10.

The NFL team with the most players selected was the New England Patriots with 9 players picked.  The Chiefs, Rams and Eagles each had 7 players selected.  The Saints, Vikings, Packers and Browns (WTF?! The Browns?!?) each had 6 players selected.  Think about that…a couple years ago there were ZERO Cleveland Browns players selected and this year they get more picked than Pittsburgh (5), Denver (4), Dallas (4), and Indianapolis (3).  The team with the fewest players selected (excluding keepers) was the Arizona Cardinals, who only had Larry Fitzgerald selected.  Including keepers, three teams only had two players picked, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Jets and the Cardinals.  (David Johnson is a keeper from the Cardinals).  Thus I’ll build the “All Unwanted” team this year from those three teams.

For whatever the Dolphins lack player-wise, they clearly make up for in other ways...

Here are some more stats and tidbits on this year's draft:

• Most of any single position drafted by one team: 6 – American BadAss drafted 6 wide receivers.  Jason went wide receiver early and often, taking them with his first three picks (Tyreek Hill in the 3^rd, Amari Cooper in the 4^th, and Brandin Cooks in the 5^th), added another in the 9^th round (R. Woods), another in the 13^th round (M. Gallup), and for good measure, one more in the 14^th round (K. Stills).  If anyone needs a receiver, contact Jason.
• Most of any single NFL team drafted by one team: 5 – Bubble Craps Bandits drafted 5 members of the Kansas City Chiefs.  The next closest was sprouts who drafted 3 members of the Los Angeles Rams.  Every team in the league drafted at least one pair of teammates.  And in spite of his team name being “Joe’s Pats”, Joe only picked one Patriot.  Both Vandelay Industries and Young Guns outpicked Joe as they both have two Patriot players.
• Most sets of teammates drafted by one team: 4 – Vandelay Industries has two players from each of the New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos. 
• Defenses slipping in the draft – Last year, the first defense was selected in the fifth round and this year the first defense didn’t go until the 7^th round when two were selected.  The Coors Light Drunk Guys were the only team to draft two defenses, courtesy of the autodraft.
• Most diverse round – 13^th Round – At least one of every position was picked, including 4 defenses.  Along with the defenses, there were 2 WR’s, 1 QB, 1 RB, 1 TE and 1 Kicker. (Four rounds (the 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, and 11^th) had all but one position selected.)
• Defending Champ following winning pattern – Defending Champ Joe’s Pats followed his winning blueprint from last year drafting the same positions by round through the first 10 rounds.  Last season Joe's picks by round were: TE, RB, WR, WR, RB, QB, RB, WR, RB, WR, and he did the exact same thing this year.  That's either some really good planning, or a really weird coincidence, but we'll see if it works for Joe this time around.

Yahoo! Predictions – Through some magical software coding and prognosis powers, Yahoo! produces draft grades and overall record predictions for the upcoming season.  Here is a summary of their predictions:

Rk	Team	Mgr	W	L	T	Pts
1	Young Guns	John	11	2	0	1,400
2	Sofa King Back	James	9	3	1	1,372
3	Vandelay Industries	Rob	8	4	1	1,362
4	Joe's Pats	Joe	7	6	0	1,389
5	American BadAss	Jason	6	7	0	1,324
6	sprouts	Russ	6	7	0	1,302
7	Longshanks	Jerry	6	7	0	1,265
8	Finders Keepers	Jens	5	8	0	1,296
9	CL Drunk Guys	Shawn	4	9	0	1,273
10	Bubble Craps Bandits	Timmy	2	11	0	1,251

So Yahoo! is predicting a showdown between the King and the Young Guns!  I shall keep track of this and see how accurate Yahoo!’s prognosticators end up being.

There’s only one thing left to say…

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!